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"textContent": "Eleven years ago, an X user who goes by cprkrn changed the password on a Bitcoin wallet holding 5 BTC. He was stoned at the time. He forgot the new password by morning, and 5 BTC sat untouched while it grew to roughly $400,000. — Read the rest \n\nThe post After 3.5 trillion guesses, a forgotten $400k Bitcoin wallet finally opened appeared first on Boing Boing.",
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